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Media Notes
Published April 20, 2007
Credit Suisse Securities LLC has been retained as the Wicks Group’s financial
advisor to aide in seeking strategic alternatives for the Daily Racing Form, including
a possible sale (Wicks Group).
PEOPLE & PERSONALITIES: NBC Sports’ Andrea Kremer is joining HBO’s “Real
Sports with Bryant Gumbel” next month as a correspondent. Kremer will continue
to report for NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” (HBO)....KFAN-AM and the Vikings
have hired Pete Bercich as an analyst on team broadcasts next year. Bercich played
for the team from ’95-98 (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 4/20)....YES Network
analyst Bobby Murcer “plans to return to the broadcast booth next month” after
having surgery on a brain tumor in December (N.Y. POST, 4/20)....NESN has
added former A’s manager Ken Macha and Naoko Funayama. Macha will be part of the
pre-and postgame shows and will debut May 4. Funayama, a freelance reporter, will
cover Red Sox P Daisuke Matsuzaka, among other subjects (BOSTON GLOBE, 4/20).
VIDEOGAME REVIEW: In Pittsburgh, Chuck Finder wrote 2K Sports’ “Major League Baseball 2K7” is a “good-looking game and an easier one to play” than Sony’s “MLB ‘07 The Show.” In the former, PNC Park “looks especially crisp and clean, with a lovely skyline in the background, even though the ad space behind home plate shills only for this video game’s sponsors.” The players’ faces “aren’t so sharp,” but ESPN’s Jon Miller and Joe Morgan “provide their fine brand of broadcasting.” Sony’s game “doesn’t do considerable justice” to PNC Park. It is a “mite slow to load and confounding in its game play” (PITT. POST-GAZETTE, 4/19).
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VIDEOGAME REVIEW: In Pittsburgh, Chuck Finder wrote 2K Sports’ “Major League Baseball 2K7” is a “good-looking game and an easier one to play” than Sony’s “MLB ‘07 The Show.” In the former, PNC Park “looks especially crisp and clean, with a lovely skyline in the background, even though the ad space behind home plate shills only for this video game’s sponsors.” The players’ faces “aren’t so sharp,” but ESPN’s Jon Miller and Joe Morgan “provide their fine brand of broadcasting.” Sony’s game “doesn’t do considerable justice” to PNC Park. It is a “mite slow to load and confounding in its game play” (PITT. POST-GAZETTE, 4/19).
